21 Granville Park
Blackheath
April 9
564
C. O.
7663
[REG 10 FR 36
1896.
Sir,
I beg very respectfully to lay before you the following statement respecting the appointment of Superintendent of the Government Vaccine Institute which I have the honour to hold in Hong Kong and humbly solicit that after considering my case you will be pleased to sanction the attachment of a salary to the office duties of which I have since the year 1892, performed gratuitously.
Here follows a short summary of the case. In the year 1887 the Colony of Hong Kong was visited by a severe epidemic of small pox and as no good vaccine lymph was available the Governor, Sir G. W. Des Voeux called upon the Medical Practitioners and others to experiment with a view to the establishment of a permanent Vaccine Institute in order to ensure a fresh supply of vaccine lymph at all periods and so place the Colony independent of outside supplies.
The result was a general failure reports being sent in that successful cultivation was impossible owing to the heat of the climate. Hearing of this upon my arrival in the Colony I offered to privately conduct a series of experiments with a view to further investigation
To the Right Honourable
J. Chamberlain
M. P.
Secretary of State for the Colonies
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